Improvement in medical compounds for catarrh



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MEDERIO TREMBLAY, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS FOR CATARRH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 218,602, dated August 12, 1879; application filed June 23, 1879.

To all whom i may concern:

Be it known that I, ME'DE'RIG TREMBLAY, of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Medical Compound, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a compound to be used for treatment of catarrh; and consists in mixing or treating the following ingredients in the manner hereinafter described.

To prepare the remedy or compound, take of nutmegs, two and one-half ounces; goldtlircad, (herb,) two drains; cloves, two drams cinnamon, two drains; prickly-ash bark, three drains, winter-green, (herb,) two drains, and Ina-aerate them in a mixture of three ounces and seven drams of alcohol, three ounces of aqua-ammonia, one-half ounce of diluted nitromuriatic acid, and five pounds of water in which has been dissolved half a pound of common salt.

After standing several hours the mixture is filtered and the liquid compound bottled for USE- This is esteemed to be an efficient remedy for catarrh, provided it be taken as directed. The dose is one-half a tea-spoonful of the remedy in one-half a wine-glass of water, to be snuffed up the nostrils on rising, and the same on going to bed; and on the same occasions the patient must drink one-half a tea-spoonful of the remedyin half a wine-glass of water.

Having thus fully described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The within-described compound, consisting of the filtered mixture of nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, gold-thread, prickly-ash bark, Wintergreen, alcohol, aqua-ammonia, common salt,

nit-ro-niuriatic acid, and \vater,.as and for the purpose described.

MEDERIG TREMBLAY.

Witnesses:

L. J. LAPORTE, F. P. GoonALL. 

